Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 2 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 3 | In all four countries shown in the chart , starts fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 4 | , The NRA has announced a " disturbing " rise in prosecutions of companies and individuals for polluting water over the last two years . |
| 5 | For instance , the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign . |
| 6 | it is this ‘ discreditation ’ of the object which has dominated art for the last half century — it all goes back to Monet ! |
| 7 | The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills . |
| 8 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 9 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 10 | Three weeks hence , The Canadian will head west for the last time . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State may withhold payment of the last 15% of the grant amount until he has accepted that the work of the Project has been completed . |
| 12 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 13 | Foreign & Colonial launched its first scheme last month in response to public demand , while Alastair Herbert , of Invesco , says business in the last two years amounted to more than £40 million . |
| 14 | IAN RUSH believes Kenny Dalglish made a terrible mistake when he walked tearfully out of the Liverpool dressing room for the last time . |
| 15 | There are few stocks on the London Exchange that have beaten the performance of transaction processing software specialist Gresham Telecomputing Plc : selling for just 14 pence last June , they added ninepence in the last day 's trading before Easter , to close at 143 pence . |
| 16 | A fountain pen is a writing instrument , metonymically ‘ fountain ’ relative to its reservoir , non-dip implicitly in its connotation , constituting a magnetic focus of cascading libido to the last drop , paradigmatically self-dipping in a Reichian sense . |
| 17 | Nor does it matter whether the tenant may give notice after the last date for service of a rent review notice ( Coventry CC v J Hepworth & Son Ltd ( 1982 ) 265 EG 608 ) or at a time which coincides with time during which a landlord may serve such a notice ( Legal & General Assurance ( Pension Management ) Ltd v Cheshire CC ) . |
| 18 | They were relaxed , joking amongst themselves ; it was a relief to be on a march where they did n't expect trouble after the last few weeks of demonstrations and violence . |
| 19 | As Joe walked away he felt that he had said goodbye to the last phase of his youth , and that his storm of weeping had swept him into manhood and away from all connection with the woman back in that room . |
| 20 | The extra name was written by hand on the scorecard , which cost 10 centimes but did n't disclaim responsibility for the last wicket to fall ! |
| 21 | One idea is to place a cereal like cornflakes round it and then add milk at the last moment before producing it . |
| 22 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 23 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 24 | You have hoarded wealth in the last days . |
| 25 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 26 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 27 | For a Government that claims to have offered choice for the last 13 years , their stance on this issue is odd . |
| 28 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 29 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 30 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |